Mammals return to Chernobyl accident area, despite ongoing radiation

In 1986, in the world’s worst accident of its kind, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spewed a large amount of radioactive material throughout Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Since that time, authorities have permanently evacuated nearly 120,000 people from the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a patchwork region spread throughout the three countries. While…